Tuesday, April 15, 2008

I know I'll often stop and think about them

Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Blackbird This poem can be a very cool poem for children to experience. How many ways can you look at something? In detail and in landscape? In a feelings way or a matter of fact description way? Vantage points? Minds eye thoughts? Encourage yr child to choose a person or an object and try to look at it in 13 ways. Older children can expand on this and look at their object in larger terms, while younger children can dictate with prompts like:What is the color of____?How does ____ make you feel?Where is _____?How does_____ look?How does_____ smell?How does_____seem?Why is ________?and so on...Finn "wrote" a poem with prompts at each section about Blaise.We sat and observed Blaise early this morning and wrote our thoughts down.I am amazed at the beautiful poem that came out of Finn.